{"id":34905,"date":"2017-12-18T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34905"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:51:15","slug":"our-lady-of-the-expectation-lady-of-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/our-lady-of-the-expectation-lady-of-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of the Expectation, Lady of \u2018O\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34906 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Expectation. This Marian feast is sadly no longer on the universal liturgical calendar but it is retained in some places\u00a0like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Poland plus with a\u00a0few religious orders. Yet,\u00a0\u201cOur Lady of Expectation\u201d educates all of us, especially the\u00a0Christian family.<\/p>\n<p>With Our Lady of the Expectation we have a view at Divine Motherhood which takes the opportunity to contemplate the great longing and anticipation of Advent, in which \u201call creation is groaning in labor pains\u201d oriented toward the promise of the Messiah. Divine Motherhood puts our attention to the meaning of new life brought about by mothers who ought to find in Mary the great model: \u201cOf all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb\u201d (Luke 1:42).<\/p>\n<p>The Church prays,\u00a0\u201cO God who wished that your Word would take the flesh from the womb of the Virgin as announced by the Angel and whom we confess to be the true Mother of God, may we be helped by her intercession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the place where this feast day originated, (cf.\u00a0the Tenth Council of Toledo, AD 656), this feast day is Nuestra Senora de la O: Our Lady of the O, the \u201cO\u201d coming from the expression of longing said in the office of the Mozarabic Liturgy. In the Latin Rite, today\u2019s feast comes in the middle of the \u201cO\u201d Antiphons (where we get the words for the hymn Veni, Veni, Emmanuel \u2014 in English O Come, O Come Emmanuel).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Expectation. This Marian feast is sadly no longer on the universal liturgical calendar but it is retained in some places\u00a0like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Poland plus with a\u00a0few religious orders. Yet,\u00a0\u201cOur Lady of Expectation\u201d educates all of us, especially the\u00a0Christian family. With Our Lady of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/our-lady-of-the-expectation-lady-of-o\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Lady of the Expectation, Lady of \u2018O\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1827,32250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34909,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions\/34909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}